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Chapter 5:

SELECTED RESERVE ENLISTED ACCESSIONS AND ENLISTED FORCE

The Ready Reserve, with an FY 2000 strength of almost 1.3 million, is the major source of manpower augmentation for the Active force. As illustrated in Figure 5.1, the two principal elements of the Ready Reserve are the Selected Reserve and the Individual Ready Reserve. Reserve Component data in this report include only the Selected Reserve.


Ready Reserve 1,238,710
Selected Reserve 865,2401
Individual Ready Reserve/Inactive
National Guard
373,470
Units and Full-Time Support 844,870
Individual
Mobilization
Augmentees
20,370
Units2
720,980
Full-Time Support3
123,890
1 Components within the Selected Reserve include the Army National Guard (ARNG), Army Reserve (USAR), Naval Reserve (USNR), Air National Guard (ANG), Air Force Reserve (USAFR), and Marine Corps Reserve (USMCR).
Coast Guard Reserve is excluded.
2 Includes Selected Reserve members in the training pipeline.
3 Includes Active/Guard Reserve (AGR) and military technicians, excluding competitive civil service technicians not having mobilization assignments in the ARNG and ANG.
Numbers are rounded to nearest ten.
Source: Department of Defense, Official Guard and Reserve Manpower Strengths and Statistics: FY 2000 Summary (RCS: DD-RA[M]1147/1148) (Washington, DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense [Reserve Affairs], 2000), Report A0, p. 1.004.

         Figure 5.1. FY 2000 composition of the Selected Reserve within the Ready Reserve.

The Selected Reserve includes three types of personnel: (1) those trained in units (including full-time support personnel) who are organized, equipped, and trained to perform wartime missions; (2) trained individuals (Individual Mobilization Augmentees [IMAs]) who provide wartime augmentation on or shortly after mobilization; and (3) those in the training pipeline (including personnel currently on or awaiting initial active duty for training, personnel awaiting the second part of initial active duty training, Active Guard/Reserve [AGR] currently on or awaiting initial active duty training, personnel in simultaneous membership programs [SMP], and personnel in other training programs).[footnote 1] Reservists and Guardsmen in the training pipeline may not deploy. Selected Reservists assigned to units and some IMAs train throughout the year. Selected Reserve units may be either operational or augmentation units. Operational units train and deploy as units; augmentation units train as units in peacetime, but are absorbed into Active Component units upon mobilization.

[footnote 1] Department of Defense, Official Guard and Reserve Manpower Strengths and Statistics: FY 2000 Summary (RCS: DD-RA(M)1147/1148) (Washington, DC: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense [Reserve Affairs], 2000), Appendix C, p. 3.003.[back to paragraph]

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